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Who's News This Week ?x Delos Wheeler Lovelace C<XIJOU<UU<1 Fjjturjj.?WNU Release. XJEW YORK.?When young Peter of Jugoslavia was hurried out of an English school after the as sassination of Alexander nine years ? _ ,, ago he was Young Peter Would told he had Not 'At Soon Bo a steady job Beggar a. King' ? sentful at Partisan Chief Tito for making himself head of a home gov ernment, even a temporary govern ment. Tito boosts himself the more easily because young Peter quit Jugoslavia when the Germans crowded in. Rather he was urged out, an 18-year-old boy, by his generals. They had turned on Prince Paul, Nasi-loving re gent, and made Peter king at a midnight crowning, but they felt themselves and the king too weak to bock Hitler. Peter is 20 now, bony and a bit bow-legged as riding breeches made plain when he visited the United States last year. He is a long faced, long-necked homely kid, not too prepossessing, but reportedly in dead earnest. When he took the midnight crown he quit breaking speed limits and general fooling around. These days he is in Cairo, a nice jumping-off place for a fast trip home when that seems sen sible. He could easily take a wife with him, at least a fiancee. She would be pretty Princess Al exandra of Greece. They finally reported their engagement this summer after a set-to with Pe ter's advisers. Those eantious graybeards doubted the good taste of announcing the happy event while Peter's subjects were so unhappy. ? ' I 'HE last time a Yankee migrated *? into British parts and tried to make everybody happy he killed oft all the knights of the Round Table He Would Build ^wn "goose 9-Point Utopia in cooked by Postwar Canada Merlin With out Mark Twain he might have done even worse. It was a job to discourage all Yankees, but here comes a Down-easter with a program for making another batch of Britons "the happiest people on God's green earth." The program is C. D. Howe's, Canada's wartime munitions minister, and before that the world's biggest builder of grain elevators, and before that a Do minion cabinet minister, M. P. and professor, but before that a good steady No. t on the crew of the Waltham, Mass., high school. After high school and Massachu setts Tech, Howe got a teaching Job over the border. He returned home for a wife. But then he went back for keeps. He was naturalized, built his elevators, got rich. He didn't rise quite as high as the Connecticut Yankee, but he was elected to par liament, was hiked up into the cabi net and there ran the railroads, the canals and the Canadian Broadcast ing system. And when Hitler struck he took over the Job of providing powder and shot and related items. Now, stoeky, cheerful and SI years old, he looks ahead. He would build la postwar Canada a nine-point utopia on "the brood basis of agriculture, for ests, mines, fisheries and," be lieve it or not, "private enter prise." That makes it a Yankee utopia. That might mako it work. ??? T ORD HAILEY, baron of Shapur, Punjab and Newport Pagnell, Bucks, aims to' prove Twain was wrong by fixing up the weather. At _ , , , _ . any rate he Somebody * Couig wm ^ jje To 'Do So/nothing" is the head Aboatth* Woathar ot ? Briti?h committee which proposes a series of stations throughout the empire to tell the postwar world, postwar airmen in particular, when to look for rain, hail, snow, heat, clouds and what have you. The baron is Just the fellow to . take on a Job like that and, moreover, to do It up brown. He was tor years a singularly com petent cog in the singularly com petent Indian Civil Service ma chine. He entered tic service right after coming d i from Oxford, Corpus Ouisti, *i hon I ors. la his heyday he made multitudes of Indian peasants prosperous by building the Jbe lam irrigation project. He turned Delhi from a mere pro vincial town into the country's cept tal; he rose to be governor of the Punjab and then of Agra and Oudh where he kept civil disobedience a la Mahatroa Gandhi under a firm thumb. 1 For theoe successes be is now handsomely decorated with the sev en-rayed star of St. Michael and St George, the lotus and roses of the order ot the Star of India and the only slightly less exalted elephants and peacocks at the Indian Empire And at the age of T1 bo is still full of ? -?: ^ Italians Fight Their Former Nazi Partners Left: Pictorial proof of the fulfillment of Premier Badoglio's promise that Italian forces would fight on the Allied side Is this photograph of Italian soldiers carrying ammunition to our forces near Mount Lungo. Cen ter: American soldiers In Italy lay wire through a muddy terrain. Pictured are Pvt. John A. Ray of Tomaston, Ga., and Stall Sergt. Bernard J. Dineer, Jersey City, N. J. Right: These Italians bring a thorough knowledge of their country's topography to the side of the Allies. They are shown aiming at the invader from positions on roeiry Mount Lungo. ?** ' ' Air Force Men Get Arctic Training in Colorado An arctic traininf command has been established by the U. S. army air forces at Echo lake high in the Colorado Rocky mountains. Left: One of the first things trainees are taught is the use of snowshoes. Two men are shown pnlling a sled which did not get into the picture. Right: Air force trainees are tanght to boild. igloos. The wind is too high on the steep mountain slopes for a tent. Commanding officer of Camp Echo Lake is Capt. C. A. K. Innes-Taylor. He is a veteran of two Byrd expeditions. Back From Tarawa on a Stretcher C. 8. coast guardsmen brine a wounded marine aboard their trans port posted near the bloody beach oI Tarawa. He was one of the 1,700 casualties suffered by the marine corps in the bitterest battle of its career. Withering Ore from heavily fortified Japanese concrete pillboxes caased most of the marine casualties. Christmas Gifts Keep Hospital Busy Sister Miriam Anne proudly displays four sets at twins born at gL Claire's hospital, Now York, within In days. Their mothers are: Mrs. Helen C. Power, Mrs. Elisabeth 8emers, Mrs. Catherine Meehan, and Mrs. Prances Malteaee. All the babies arrived In time to spend their ?rst Christmas with their families. * " ? '* * - t ? ' ' " ir'-fl I: V' ?' Strike Conferees J. J. Aronson of the New Torfc Central railroad (left) and J. J. Pel ley, president of the Association of American Railways, as they arrived at a White Bonse conference on the threatened railroad strike. Operat ing brotherhoods had asked a $3 per day increase. Rose Named Riordan Naomi Riordan, 17-year-old coed of Pasadeaa Junior college, talifor aU. who oral ehoeea qaeea of the 1?44 TrarnimMit mi Bmm Naomi was bora tm Notes of a Newspaper Man: "Dear Walter Winchell," affec tionately writes Vivian Gardner of Dayton, Ohio, "I noted on the cover flap of Bob Casey's book that you made claim to his famous saying about newspaper men being such in teresting people. I've written Bob's publishers inclosing an item from your column in the Wisconsin News (Milwaukee) back in 1935 or '36. I've carried it all that time. To quote your column, you distinctly para graphed: 'We always liked Bob Ca sey's parody on the cliche: "It must be swell being a newspaperman? you meet so many interesting peo ple." Casey, a big-time Chicago scribe, says: "It's nice being in the newspaper business where you meet I so many interesting people?because they're in it!" ' To this you added Jimmy Cannon's snapper. So I've asked the publisher just when you claimed it as original. I'm a former staffer on the Wisconsin News and am here writing for an Air Force technical mag. This is another time you've caught a heckler looking sappy." A recent issue of Life has an en grossing essay by their correspond ent, Carl Mydans, who just returned from Japan. One observation in it deserves repetition: "Despite the Jap propagandists' new respect for America's power, they temper their warnings about it with encouraging news of America's internal prob lems. We who have been away for two years can tell you all about the root suit riots, the coal strikes, the train wrecks and industrial sabo tage, the race riots, the black mar kets, the successes of isolationist congressmen, the shabby politics, the grumbling under rationing" . . . In short?when Americans on the home front refuse to aid their coun try?they just aid their country's en emies. Yet some tell us we can sep arate domestic policies from foreign policies! The Orchid Garden: Speaker Sam Rayburn's greatest speech, urging the Congress to fight for our nation, instead of for pressure groups, etc. We are pasting it on our heart . . , The film, "Voice in the Wind" . . . Esquire's 1944 Varga calendar plus the epics of Philip Stack . . . The new Latin Quarter show (via Our Girl Friday's endorsement) . . . Peter Donald's Mutual program nostalgic nonsense. New York Novelette: The current song hit, "Paper Doll," was written in 1922 by Johnny Black. He first played it for a publisher as his pet canary chirped along, perched on Johnny's shoulder . . . E. B. Marks was so impressed he bought the ditty. "Any tune so simple," he said, "that a bird can whistle should be a sensation" . . . But for some reason or other Mr. Marks never really plugged it and it perished . . . Johnny Black died soon after . . . The Mills Bros, heard a small-time cafe singer offer it this year . . . But the Marks firm had run out of copies, and none could be found . . . Until Tommy Lyman located an old copy in his trunk . . . The Mills freres then made a Decca recording of it, and "Paper Doll" was re-born. . . . Over a million platters have, been peddled to date plus 700,000 or more song copies . . . Mr. Marks then had to search for the author's survivors to pay the royalties . . . He finally located Johnny's father living on an old "Tobacco Road" farm . . . The 82-year-old father of Johnny Black, who difcd young and penniless, will realize $50,000 in roy alties from "Paper Doll," which his boy wrote 21 years ago. Many editorialists are pouting about the press relations fiasco at Cairo and Teheran. They have good reason to be irked by the bungling. But why allow such petty annoy ances to smother the great signifi cance of the momentous confabs? Why not devote more space to point ing out that the conferences marked the greatest political victory in his tory? They marked the birth of civi lization's greatest dream?the hope for permanent peace. Isn't that worth more newsprint than the fact that an error was made in the re lease of the news? Sounds In the Night: At Paris Qui Chante: "She didn't add any weight, she multiplied it!" ... At Jimmy Dwyer's: "He has a face only a love could mother 1" ... At the Yacht Club: "I never feel my first dive frinks" ... In Duffy's Tavern: "Aren't you too old to believe in Si natra Claus?" ... At Jimmy Kel ly's: "Weak? He wears suspenders to hold his shoulders on!" . . . In the Hurricane: "Failing in love is like falling downstairs." This Is why nooeensorshlp drives newsboys nutz: British gazettes were not allowed to publish stories about the Cairo confab, taken from Reuters, the British news agency, or from the official version?but only from German broadcasts . . . The German broadcasts were based on the Reuters stories 1 Nete to those who pooh-pooh the re hie of propaganda: The Japs still haven't told their people about the Cairo accord for fear it might weak en their will to fight. THE TRADE-IN HOME Dr. Harvey N. Davia of Stevena institute predicta that the postwar world will bring a house that can be traded in for a new one every three or four years. It will be made of paper and plastics a/id will be de livered in packages, assembled at high speed and have a prescribed "trade-in value" each year. ? We assume it will be ordered by color, with a Dueo finish, and that every little while pop will hear mom mer say: "Now remember, Chldsey, this is the day you wash and slmon ixe the bungalow." ? Can't you imagine the situation when considering the Home of the Future? The folks will be sitting around the old (aged three years) homestead: Mom?What was that? Pop?What was what? Mom?That funny noise I keep hearing. Pop?Oh, that's the house. It's be ginning to RATTLE. ? Mom?Yes, and it's full of squeaks. I suppose we ought to take it in and have it tightened up. Pop?How long have we had this home? Mom?Lemme see . . . they de livered it three years ago Fourth of July. Pop?Well, there ain't much sense trying to go on in a house much longer than that. It's stood up pret ty well. Mom?I don't agree with you. We had trouble with this house from the minute they delivered It. It never was what you'd call a smooth job. Pop?You didn't take the care of it that you should. Mom?Now don't go giving me that stuff. I was very careful about this place. ? Pop?Well, I guess I'll phone the bnilder and see abont getting a new one. They've got some pretty smart honses on the market this season. Mom?Mrs. Moloney just got a new home and it would knock your eye out. It's got sensationally new lines and comes in three colors. It is heated by radio. Pop?That's nuthin'. They're turn ing out a house now that's heated by television. ? Mom?I read about a seven-room job where you can raise or lower the windows by pressing a button. Pop?And they say there's a model out this year with a gadget which installs or removes the screens by hydraulic pump. Mom?What do you think they'd allow us on this place? Pop?Oh, about 50 per cent of the original purchase price, I suppose. I'll have the man come over and appraise it. What are you doing to morrow? Mom?Why? Pop?I thought maybe we could go down and look at a new house and maybe take a DEMONSTRATION! \ ? ? ? "Urge Clare Lnee fur Vice Presi dent."?Headline. ? This department is all tor Mrs. Luce as vice president. It there is any place in America where glam our is desperately needed, it is in that office. It would be nice, too, to be able to look at the little girl babies and say: "She has the same chance every other girl has to grow up and become vice president." ? We can imagine the women mak ing regular trips to Washington just to see what the vice president of the United States is wearing. ? ? ? Says Elmer Twitchell? The rubber shortage doesn't seem so critical now after we have chewed on the wing and neck of the holiday birds. Some of the turkeys we have seen look as if they were retreads. ? That tie-up racket persists. We went into a store to buy a turkey yesterday and the butcher tried to make us take a goose, a pigeon, a rabbit and some pigs feet as welL . ? ? ? . The Nazis have a new war weapon, the most terrible of all time. And gosh are they scared of it) ? ? ? A proofreader quit the Job today because the Russians had captured 300 more of those towns no two people spell alike. ? ? ? Then there's the fellow who swears he was hijacked on the way home from a-turkey raffle. ? ? ? Problem This is the question that makes Hit ler pout: la Inonu in or is Inonu outT ? ? ? The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad grossed more money than at any time in its his tory in the past year, $178,004,388. This was $23,000,000 over the pre vious year. The common stock is 85 cents a share and the preferred $1 It Just goes to show what a bad influence tnancial prosperity can be. AsiHi ANOTHER I \ A General Quiz 1 ' The Questions 1. What la the name of the fabu lous animal with one horn in the center of its forehead? 2. Was Sitting Bull a war chief? 3. What President of the United States served the briefest term of office? 4. What dogs are allowed meat rations? 5. A proposition to which peo ple in general agree is called what? 6. According to the Bible by what method did Gideon choose his warriors? ? 7. Why do paratroopers wear extra-heavy boots? 8. A native of Flanders is called what? 9. In Greek mythology who lost an important race because of three golden apples? 10. Of how many states does the Mississippi river form a boundary? The Answers 1. Unicorn. 2. Sitting Bull in reality was a medicine man and never a war chief. 3. William Henry Harrison, who died after serving one month. 4. "Seeing eye" dogs. Blind per sons using such dogs may obtain 'up to 12 extra points weekly. 5. An axiom. t 6. By their method of drinking water (Judges 7:3, 6). | -7. 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